User blog comment:DarkSlayer 3/DarkSlayer Blogposts/@comment-18005945-20130930025213

when starting the dmc franchise, hideki kamiya and the other guys from capcom were actually trying to do a "resident evil 4" , the whole team decided to do a european mythology based game so they actually flew to many european countries and learnt as much about their culture as possible , later when they decided to do devil may cry , they combined mythology from all over the world , but heavily influenced by european ones , and most specifically the divine comedy.